THE DAILY JOURNALltfAT' 2 GENTS A .COPY?Si
; - i i i I,,- -w
"- I Jr ' " ' " ' ' ' "
lum.T.cr Bonders War.ted
TTfc A V W
JOURNAL CIRCULATIOri
-I YESTERDAY XV A3
30,075
Advertise In The Journal.
' Journal Ada Bring the Best
Pesulta. .
' ' ' '
The weather Fair tonight and
Friday; northwest winds.
V0J,. VII. NO. 82.
PORTLAND,'. OREGON,' THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE.. 11, 1908, EIGHTEEN PAGES.' '
PRICE TWO ; CENTS. KillF1!!
y
A1 Mi M
m s tsw t r"i " ""iw.
11 '" " inwwiw-m- n. .,; ,. Jii ni f i
1 i U U U U U . e L s V UnUaa U
DETrnMlMEB: EFFORT Mil
mm
Delegates Favorable to Sec
retary of War; Consider
f They Have Positive Assur
ante of Victory Several
'Contests Settled. ' : .
(United Press Leased Wirt.)
Chicago, June Ther la a doubt
that a determined effort will ; be mad
to stamped the oonventioa to BooswvwM
whether h give sis ooaam o raok
action or not.
v Chicago, June ll.Enough, pledged
Taft delegate! to Insure his nomination
on the. first ballot had been placed on
the temporary roll . of the convention to
day when the national committee ended
- the contents in the First and Fifth dis
tricts of South Carolina by seating- the
Tart men.
Taft leaders are Jubilant over what
they ; consider final -positive assurance
of victory. It la generally believed here
now that Taft will capture the entire
state delegations Xrom Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia. ,
When the Taft men were seated from
the First .district of South. Carolina, the
boomers of the secretary of ' ar' an
nounced that they then had positively
' pledged 489 delegates with, their names
on ma temporary ruu,
' Contest afoUowa.'TZ"'"
The contest In the Flfth.CaraJtna dis
trict quickly .followed and waa disposed
of in short order,, giving -the desired two
more, making the Ol, which Is the num
ber necessary for nomination.
The "allies'' still are Inclined to dis
credit the claims of the Taft men and
assert the v have some surprises to
spring, but - the general consensus of
opinion la that the Taft men will sub
stantiate their claims.
The center Of the fight from now on
will he the - credentials committee.
where the permanent roll will, be male
p, as Jar as ultimate results are con
cerned and the fate of the candidates
wtl be praoticany aeciaea. , ,
Allies Will right. -
The "allies" will fight lhard "In tha
credentials committee but Manager
; Frank H. Hitchcock today said that
there is now -absolutely no question
of a possible contingency . srlslng that
might prevent the nomination of the
secretary of war on the first ' ballot.
It appears that the Taft men will win
tne rest 01 tne coniesis oviore m ner
tlonal committee with little difficulty
and in that event they will go Into the
convention with a wide margin to spare
on the temporary roll. The committee
filed ohieciions to the incorooratlon In
the platform of a plank protesting
against ine tree us or injunctions py
. ' riHa Attoatlre
Bills listened attentively to all the
no reolv as it was evident he was not
authorised to make any changes In the
platform. The . objections In full are
expected to be forwarded at once to
Taft In Washington., Delegates, who
were rerusea places on me temporary
roll of the convention today received
literature and buttons from the ''sec
ond elective term" Roosevelt boomer
and many or tnem wore tna outtone u
public. - 1 "
Former Governor Benjamin - B. Odell
Of New Tork was brought forward to-
(Continued on Page- Five.)
TOWER LEAVES
Declares He Will Never Be
, tiirn to Berlin , and Is
; -Sorry About Scandal. .
-t rr- r - '".
(rnltfd Preae teuedi Wlrt.i ' ' " r
Berlin,' June ll.-r-CharlemagYie Tower,
former ambassador from the United
States to Germany, who has been suc
ceeded by David Jayne Hill, by the action-
of .President Roosevelt, left this
city today fur Paris. - . - , . - ,
. "I nevef expect to, visit Oermany
again'' said Tower. "Under the condi
tions of my farewell, I feel that I could
never return. I shall withdraw entirely
from public life. I am through with it
all. I only wish that I might , have
withdrawn under more favorable cir
cumstances." .
Tower was . plainly dressed. Only
those members of the embassy who were
In duty bound to see hira off accompa
nied him to the station.' Mr. and Mrs.
Tower will make a tour through Europe
before returning to the United States,
where they expect to arrive about the
first of October. -- .
Hlli to See. Europe..
New York, June 11. Former Govern
or David B. Hill will be .one of the
notable absentees from the Democratic
national convention at Denver next
month. Mr. Hill sailed on the steam
ship Baltic today and will spend the
greater part of the summer in Europe,
ft is his first trip abroad.
BORAH MAY HAVE BOOSTED
FOR JOHN HAYS HAMMOND
' John Haya Hammond, Hla Wife and Ilia Daughter NaUlle.
(Sperltl Dlipatea to Tbe Joorn!.) '
Washington.' June ll. Now that Sen
ator Bora with somewhat of an air of
mystery has decided after consultation
with the president that a western man
shall be nominated . for the - vice-presidency,'
there Is belief among - the wise
ones that the western' man In question
may be John Hava Hammond, who has
said "My home is from the south line
of Mexico to the boundaries of Alaska.'?
Senator Borah may 'mean that Senator
Plies of Washington has ambition - to
become the running mate, of . Secretary
Taft an be may nave an Idea that a
man from Oregon or - California might
oa avaijaoie - vice-presiaentjai timber.
LARGE SlinS FOR
Demand . for .Tickets ; to Be-,
publican Convention: bends
Prices to the. Top Xotch..
' - '-United PrtM teaaed.Wlre.) f .
Chicago, June 11. The 'demand for
tickets to the Republican national con
vention, which .convenes next Tuesday,
is bo great that $100 Is the least figure
at which -. one can be obtained. Tbe
men who subscribed toward the . ex
penses of the convention are receiving
tickets at the rate of one for each 1100
contributed. No one has yet admitted
receiving over one ticket- '
Three thousand tickets are to be dis
tributed to Chicago politician,, and the
rest of the space ln tho Coliseum Is to
be devoted to delegates, press , and
frlendn of the leaders. Many politicians
have offered to act as cell boys to get
inside the rreat convention hall so rreat
ia the -dumand, for ticket, ? ,
ffillSSIl CARDS
Be this as It may 7ohn Haya Hammond
has been announced as a candidate and
as he is" an intimate friend of the sena
tor's ft is barely possible that Borah
has, gone to. the front for the great min
ing expert.
. . , J .... . , i -Boston,'
June 11. It was announced
today that Governor Guild will form
no alliance, either offensive or defensive,
with John-Haya Hammond, In the race
for the ' Republican . vice-presidential
nomination. :, Governor Guild says that
tie expects the Indorsement of Michi
gan .besides .that .of all New-England,
and that - it would - be unfair to bring
the delegates from those state Into an
argument with Hammonds. u .
TAFI'S PLAIII! IS
vTARlFF reform
OMo Platform' Utilized to
-Build Up .Q. O.P.'s Of-,
ficial Structure.;:
I. (United Praaa teaied Wire.) , , , .
- ChlcagOv. June 11 . Since It has be
oome known thit the tariff plank in
the Ohio -Republican platform waa ac
tually - written by Secretary Taft, an
effort 1 being made to have this plank
Inserted In the national party 'platform.
The exact wording -of the tariff plank
Is' aa follows: t '
HA revision of tn tariff by a special
session of the nntt congress, - Insuring
the maintenance of the true principle of
protection by imposing aurh duties as
will equal the difference between the
coat of production at home and -abroad,
together with-a reasonable profit, to the
end that without excenaive duties Amer
ican manufacturers, farmers, producers
and wage-earner - may have adequate
proWcUgn." ,(.,-.
. 4 - " . ' ' ' . . v.-i!
PARALYZED OH RACES
BY FLOOD ABOLISHED
Wholesale and Packing
House District of Kansas
City Under Water and Mis
souri and Kaw Bivers Are
Still Bapidly Bisingf.
Mississippi Forced Out of Its
Banks by Missouri and
Lower Shore on Illinois
Side Near St. Louis Has
Been Inundated.
(United Prem teased Wire.)
" Kansas City, June ll.V-The
wholesale business and packing-
bouse district of this city is para'
lyxed today by the flood,, which has
Mt.an end to practically all com
mercial t occupations. ,y Tbe flood Is
now within 200 yards of the Union
depot , and . practically all railroad
irainq is cut on. - . -.
The Kaw and tbe, .Missouri rivers
continue- te rise and hare" Inundated
such juwlde eweep of. country .that.
the' lower sections look like a great
inland sea. - "t '
Thousands' of the homeless! are be
ing fed at relief quarters established
by . charitable institutions. . The,
great convention hall has been
turned Into an enormous dormitory
where whole families are "camp-
ino-." So far it haa been impossi
ble to estimsore the amount of prop
erty' loss in the high water, but it
Is believed the flood is more disas
trous than, that of 1903.
St. liouls, Mo., Juno 11. The flood
In the .Missouri river are forcing the
Mississippi out of Its .bank and the
Water la rising here at an "alarming
degree. ;;; ' ""' . ;.
This afternoon the river was a foot
above the danger mark and Is spreading
over : the lower snore on tne Illinois
side. - Reports from up the Missouri In
dicate that conditions are much worse
than yesterday- and firms with build
ings near the water front are preparing
to move everything possible out of the
lower; stories. Many of the residents
along the. river have left their home
in anticipation or oeing oriven out.
FEDEEAL OFFICIAL
BOBBED BY THUGS
M T- ' : , 11 m ii .i i.i " ,' ..' j -'; . -
(United Preat Leased Wire.) -Tacoma,
June ; 11. O. J. II. Swift,
United. States deputy ahipping commis
sloner, after spending the evening with
friends In the north end. on his return
home took a "short cut tnrougn w right
nark. Aa he was oasslng a clumn of
shrub two men stepped out and ordered
him to throw up his nana a, at tne same
time striking him over the head with a
blackjack, inflicting a deep scalp wound
that renderea mm unconscious. Tne
thugs -rifled Mr. Swift's pockets, se
curing a valuable gold watch and 150
in e-oia. t - -
. Mr. Swift , remained unconscious for
some time, but by hard effort was able
to reach hi home without assistance.
He at once notified the police depart
ment, who detailed plain - clothe men
on the case. . Owing to - the darkness
and suddenness of the attack Mr. Swift
waa unable to give the police descrip
tions ox ins uiugs. ' -
SUBMARINE BUILDER
INVENTS AIESHIP
v (United Preaa Lead Wlr i ;
New Torki June 11. Plana of the naw
style airsnin. invented by S mon ik.
the submarine boat builder, . were made
publto today, together - with the infor
mation that preparation for the build
ing or in mp were already fairly
unoer way. i ne airsnin ia to Da con
structed by one of the best-known stu
dents of aerial navigation in this coun
try, on the lines suggested by Lake. '
The new ahlo ia to he a rnmhlnatlon
of aeroplane, dirigible balloon and hello-
cepier. una aesigns nave been snown
to several of the most skilled aero-
itlo enaineers in this country, who
have declared they are practical. , -
in ni application ior paienia, una
say that the objects of his Invention
are to provide an airship of great sta
bility which will permit of safe and
easy descent m case of failure Of Its
propeller or steering mechanism. ; .
SUBMABINES ABE PUT
, . INTO COMMISSION
Valleio. Cal..' June 11. The subma
rine boats Pike and Grampus have been
put - In commission, - with - Lieutenant
Castle In temporary " command. The
crew for the .two diver assembled at
the navy yard today and will leave
on the boats some time thia week. The
ubmaiines will leave for the lower bay
to make teats near San Francisco. .
The torpedo-boat deatroyera Farragut
and Preble have arrived here from their
visit to Portland,
The New York Ledslatnre
Passes Hughes Bill Mak
ing Bookmakers Liable to
One Year in Prison With
No Alternative of Fine.,
Senator. Foelker, Who .Was
Taken to Session in Seri
, ous Condition, Cast Decid
- ing Vote WTiich , Won
Governor's Victory.
(United Preae Leased Wire.)
Albany, N. Y June 11. The sen
ate today passed the anti-race track
gambling bill, which makes book
making punishable by & year in jail
with no alternative fine. The vote
was 26 to 25. Senator Foelker of
Brooklyn, who was brought here se
riously. ill was able to take his seat
and east his vote for the measure.
The other .bill, which will com
plete the. Hughes antl-raclng legisla
tion' and putr an end to the "sport
of kings'' in the Empire State, la
expected to be passed by the same
vote." This is the 'greatest victory
Governor Hughes has won since he
began, his term of, office. t . .
Both bills were passed by the. lower
house yesterday. The anti-race track
gambling legislation waa urged by Gov
ernor Hughes at the beginning of the
f regular -session of - the legislature In
January.' It was laughed at when first
mentioned, but the , legislators soon
found he was serious. -
Every effort was made to postpone
and -block the -bills, which; were intro
duced by Assemblyman Hart- and Sena
tor Agnew. wnen ine committee near
ings were held, August Belmont, J. -B.-Ha.aTln
and James R. Keene. million
aire racehorse owners, - appeared in per
son -with attorney and made a bitte
fight. The session was adjourned after
the bills were beaten In the senate by
a tie vote.
Hughes thereupon -called a , snecial
election In Niagara, and Orleans coun
ties to - nil a vacancy in the senate,
stumped, the district and secured the
eleotlon of Senator .Wallace, who fa
vored the bills. . In the meantime he
called an extra session of the legisla
ture, wnicn- .toaay gave nim ine-oeeaea
vote.' , .
'Albany, N. T., June 11, A daring
plot to defeat the' ' anti-race ; track
gambling bill was frustrated today by
the cleverness of a trained nurse, who
blocked four men in an effort to kidnap
Senator- Foelker, whoso vote gave the
needed majority that won the - victory
for Governor Hughes against the racing
interests. The kidnapers called at
Foelker house. One represented that
he was a doctor,- Foelker was ill in
bed. They said they, had come to con
vey him' to the capitolt The nurse, who
bad been warned that such - an effort
might be made, delayed them while a
telephone message was sent to Foelker's
friend.- In the meantime the regular
physician arrived , and the kidnapers
made their escape.
" Reception 'on " Ship Chicago.
'New Tork, June 11. The French line
steamship Chicago, which Is here on
her first trip from, Havre, was the
scene of a notable reception and lunch
eon today given by the steamship-company.
- The special guests of - the oc
casion Included Ambassador Jusserand.
Mayor McClellan Of New ,York and
Mavor Busse and a score of aldermen
hof . th city' Of Chicago. -
STREETS HOT FOR
Arrests Will Follow Unless. Debris From. Stores- and
Sidewalks Is Deposited Somewhere Else Than ;on
' Clean Pavements in Early Morning Hours.
Desolt the warning that have been
sent out by the city officials in regard
to sweeping upon . sidewalk and into
street gutters, merchant and residents
have continued the practice and arrests
will probably follow.- Superintendent
Donaldson went to the trouble . Of .noti
fying the merchant In the , downtown
district and asked them to have their
janitors 'sweep their, stores before mid
night so the street sweepers could .re
move the rubbish during the night. -
Instead of complying with the request
the store are swept out in the morning
after the city has gone to the expense
and trouble of sweeping the streets and
the rubbish and refuse is littered about
the-pavement, where it remnins all ny
and nlcht until the street cleaners
again make their rounds.- v
Jjonairtson ia loaay mat ine Firpis
are nerfectlv clean in the downtown lts-
Arict at 6 o'clock In the morning, but a
None Better on
the Coast
Sunday Morning Journal is the
paper that entertains,
Next Sunday's Issue will ex
ploit many of the advantages of
Oregon as a home state and will
deal with live topics of the day.
Best sporting pages, best tele
graph service, best illustrations
and more reading matter.for your
money than can be -obtained in
any other coast Sunday paper. 1
, Special . fashion pages, special
pages for children, special comics
and alt tbe specialties worth spe
cializing. .
A paper to take Into your,
homes. ,
Ask for ;
The Sunday Journal
BILLEK GOES
TO
Man Convicted of Murdering
Mary Vrzal and Accused of
, Poisoning .Five Others Is
- Condemned to Die Tonior
; row by" Supreme "Court. .
, j . . (United' Press Leaaed (Wlra.) ' . :
Springfield, ; III.,' . Juna 11, Herman
Blllek, the Bohemian fortune-teller, who
waa, convicted of the murder,, of Mary
Vraal in' Chicago in 1305, and accused
of the poisoning of five other members
-of the Vrzal family, must hang tomor
row, " according to a decree '- handed'
down by the supreme court today, ,
' Blllek had applied for a stay of exe
cution and a writ of habeas corpus on
the technical ground that the judge who
sentenced him had not asked him be
fore whether he had -anything to say.
The court held that this contention
had no merit.
The ' governor and the prison board
have already refused to pardon Billek.
; Chicago, . June 11. Following a pa
thetic leave-taking with his mother in
Cleveland, . Ohio, over the long-distance
telephone today, Herman Billek,- the
condemned murderer almost-collapsed.
His nerve returned after he had had a
conference with Father CCallahan, who
Is conducting , a whirlwind speaking
tour, over the city today in an effort
to save ? the condemned man. - -
Blllek's wife visited his cJI this
afternoon. When she wa ready to go
Billek said: . . , :
"Well, mamma, I guess If all over.
I've got to - die.-: I don't- car much.
Through all these things, I can see
only the noose, -but cheer up, don't be
crying over me. 1 Remember that when
the time comes, I -will go to the scaf
fold as bravely a any. man ever did."
DBEW PENSION GIVEN-
TO H$ DEAD FATHER
(United Preae Leased Wire.l
Santa Crux, Cal., June 11. A peculiar
case of double' identity that ' waa a
puxale to the government agents for a
long time, has lust com to light here
In the arrest today of Kltsah M Frank
lin ss Walrren P. Franklin for making
irauuuirnii nanus suii' o - " V ' .
ment. It Is charged by PepntyJnlted
States Marshal lien Toil, wno maaa
the arrest that Franklin ha represent
ed himself as his father, Warren P.
Franklin, and drawn pension a Vet
eran or tn civu war. ' . , .
'- Thi UYnnklin has been dead for
some time, but the son made out the
application for the pension each month.
few hours later are covered with refuse
and debria of all kinds.. He said that
If the merchants do not refrain from
their practices complaints will be aworn
to and arrests will follow. - v
The city ordinance relative to keeping
the streets clean is strict and fully pro
vides for the prevention of littoring the
street and sidewalks with storo sweep
ings and dirt. City Attorney Kava
naugh said yesterday that the law also
provides that persons have-no- right to
sweep - the sidewalks In front of their
property and throw the refuse into the
street gutters. The law, he said, is ex
plicit upon this point.
Mayor I,ane, Superintendent Donald
son and other citv officials do not wish
to proBecute, cttlssfna for so trivial a
matter, but the Hbu has become ao
f;eneml that action will have to be taken
mmediately. Mayor Ijjiia hts pninted
out that the. question i one of ivhethPr
tne- citizens want a cl'in oltv and fur-.
her whether they i;l perforin tlielri
part in keeping it cltiu. J
SCAFFOLD
PL1S1I
Calmly Greet Maid and
Young Son But Do Not
Overlook the Jewelry of
the J. B. Frem Family on
East Third Street. , '
Daylight Bobbery. Supreme
:vin Its Audacity Ended by
Arrival of Son, Who, How
ever, Believes the Thief Is
an Electrician. '
' Unparalleled In the history of Port
land police annals for audacity and con
summate ' cunning, a daylight robbery
was committed In the. residence of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Frem, 261 East Third
street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
while Mrs. Frem,' maid was watchtna
the houae in the absence of the family.
.Two diamond scarf pin and a brooch
set with pearls, the total value of which
Is placed at about $50, were, taken," The
time-iy arrival of Mrs; Frem' son from
school saved several hundred dollars'
worth of valuable which. wce In closo
proximity' to the stolen jewelry.
' ;' ., - atald Keet Burglar".
' From their method Captain of De
tectives Baty place the thieve In the
class ' of . professional ' daylight men.
Shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon two men tallying with their de
scription knocked at the door of the
house adjoining the Frem residence.
When the knock was answered they
walked' away after asking some ques
tion as a subterfuge. Their knock at
the Frem reaidenre- waa not inrari
as the maid is a trifle bard of hearlnw.
and 'was in her room on , the second
floor. ,i They, entered the house, ono
going to the second floor, whti ih
other remained on guard downstairs
.The maid met the man 'nn ilm tmt
floor when she had occasion to go down
stairs. -He waa standing neat- the door
of the kitchen. He told her ha had an
appointment at -the house at 4 o'cltK k.
The maid aupposed he wa there on
business for Mr. Frem and thought no
more about it It Is the presumption
that he remained In the vicinity of this
house while his , partner wa working
the Inside. ' . v r
' Burglar Welcome Son,
Some minutes after th mnM v.
talked with the man and retired to her
room the Frem boy arrived home from
school. As he was climbing the stair
way o ine second noor ne met a well
dressed young fellow coming down, who
Bpoata to him, saying: "Hello, Jack."
The little fellow thought he was an
electrician or. some one with business
in the house. ,,.,'.
Nothing was suspected until I.Tr
Frem arrived home and missed that j art
Of her jewelry which had been lvm eit
posed o the chiffonier in her bei
Immediately she looked through t
different compartments and found t .
AKiior vaiuaoias sale. It Is th mi
lUoa -'that -the thief had Just bf?n-i tl
ransack the room when the arrivrw of
J11?? h0 - 'fiKhtened him a , .
J01; of the 'compartment of the ci .i
lonter had ben opened.
Captain Baty has detailed two ale.jf!
on the case. The police have good
script ions of the thieve, both of wN.-i
r described as being stylishly dre-M-.i
HOTEL 0ECi;..T
GOOD Oi:B,
' ,"-' - ... '.
Most Prosperous Year in Ex
; perience of the Portland
j Except Fair Year.
Net 'profit for the Hotel Pr,,ti,..
during the IS months ending April 1,
this year, were the largest Jn its his
tory with ' the exception of the f!-.i
the Lewis and Clark ei-,...,i .- -,
1 arnings would nave n-
eeeded the banner year had It not t
ror the currency famine, whirh aff- i
fi the hotel boslnes materially nil o- - s
the. tnlted State, last fall, ia t!i- f,vm.
ion of the officers of the coinptuiv.
Th8e facts were matle known ,-s-i-day
at the annual meeting of ttt u, -holders
of the Hotel Portland. I ,n
meeting was for the purpose of i
ing the board of directors, ail of ... -,,,-,
were reelected. The dir, tni nr-
Harrv I. Ctrbrtt, president ; v. i .
vord, vice-president; C. A. Iw.n.l,, v. ...
Ham M. Ladd and Martin YVi, u s t
boord of directors.
' The hotel Is now pavi-ir an jio- ,t
dividend of 12 pT (: r . .
quarterly 4 per cent ,.; i . f ? ? - J v, ., ., ,
cliireil yestriH.
l.ftHt aiiilit :'-f I .
and ail wo ; r-- ,..,'..,-. .
hoif-L V nen t - -."
however, n i- ' -- - i
immedii'"v i ,- ,
erl innm ;
l,.it I.. - ... -i.
gar in ' ;